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The regional is part of a series of point scoring races at clubs set across the North West region. Its a biggish meeting with lots of drivers and some fairly serious competition. Good chance to see the cars in action but not always the best time to talk to people! Club days are more causal so a better chance to chat, and maybe have a play in between rounds. Also critically for you, both Bury and Southport do run trucks, but not at regionals so it will be a truck free day.

I'm also roughly equidistant between the two clubs myself. Track wise I prefer Southport and the people there are very nice and helpful, but they take their racing a lot more seriously than Bury, which is really just a bunch of blokes messing about with toy cars on a Sunday afternoon. Choose which suits you - I'm very much on the causal side so prefer Bury.

SC trucks wise the pick of the bunch remains the Associated SC10. In our recent indoor series this was far and away the preferred SC truck. That said, none of the Bury regulars currently runs one - we have a Blitz, a Slash and a Hyper 10SC.
The Hyper is 4wd but not currently available in the UK - the similar Hong Nor SCRT10 is though and available through Modelsport. It needs electrics as it not RTR but as most RTR's don't really come with race spec gear thats no loss.
Pricy but interesting is the Traxxas Slash 4x4. Its big money, but comes supplied with a brushless motor and ESC, 2.4ghz radio and decent servo - all things you'd want to upgrade on a cheaper model.